Western Elegance

The Triumph of Galatea (1511) by Raphael (Italian, 1483 – 1520), fresco, 295 cm (116.1 in) x 225 cm (88.5 in), Villa Farnesina, Rome

Study of an Angel from Paradise Lost. 1867. Alexandre Cabanel French 1823-1889. drawing. http://hadrian6.tumblr.com

Carl Gustav Carus - "Gothic window with telescope, Faust's study"

Angel of death by Evelyn De Morgan (1881)

Peder Mørk Mønsted - "Winter landscape, Holmstrup" (1927)

Aurora Borealis, by Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900)

An Arctic Summer: Boring Through the Pack in Melville Bay, by William Bradford, 1871

Kirchenruine im Schnee (1853) - Carl Georg Adolph Hasenpflug

Sunset in winter (Edmund Foerster, 1872)

Jakob Böhme - Aurora (cropped) - 1682 - via Getty Open Contact

Otto Lindberg - "Sailing at dusk" (1926)

Oil on canvas

News from afar, mid. 1860’s by Alfred Stevens (Belgian, 1823–1906)

Nymphs Hunting (Nymphes Chasseresses) (1898) by Julius Leblanc Stewart (American, 1855 – 1919), oil on canvas, 140.3 x 111.8 cm (55.2 x 44 in), Unknown Location

Tempest on the sea at night (1849) by Ivan Aivazovsky

A young naval officer who makes the young lady blush while she sews a union jack (which was introduced 1801, after Ireland joined the Union of Great Britain), possibly for his ship.